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The MTA continues to build out the concourse and terminal for East Side Access’ opening day in 2022. When completed, East Side Access will deliver fewer delays, greater reliability and more options for customers. The photos here provide a glimpse of the concourse, the terminal design and the overall aesthetic,...

Roy Nicholson’s “Hempstead Plain, Morning & Evening (2018)”, has been installed at Hicksville Station. In 2002 artist Roy Nicholson created glass mosaic artwork for the Hicksville station ticket office and waiting room. When the station underwent a renovation and modernization in 2018, Nicholson was invited back to expand the project...

The LIRR Expansion Project has extended the registration deadline for its STEM Competition to March 6, 2019. Also, due to participant requests, the size of eligible groups has been increased: students may elect to work individually, in small groups or as an entire class. The LIRR Expansion Project STEM Competition...

Local elected officials and Village and Town administrators from LIRR Expansion Project-adjacent communities joined the LIRR Expansion Project team for the monthly Mayors’ Meeting at the Community Information Center in Mineola. The project team discussed many topics, including several upcoming construction activities that will occur throughout the project corridor, the...

Preparation for the excavation of the Covert Avenue grade crossing elimination continues. Support of excavation on the northern side of the project, which required a daytime closure of Covert Avenue for a short period concluded last week. According to a February 20th article in the New Hyde Park Herald Courier,...

Representatives from the LIRR Expansion Project team joined the Garden City Friends of STEAM at the Garden City Public Library for an information session about the project’s cutting-edge STEM Competition. The project team presented to interested students and parents, and discussed an overview of the project, the guidelines for submission,...

Massive new concrete and steel columns have been constructed to support the structure that will accommodate the beginning of the Third Track at the South Tyson Avenue Bridge modification project. The track, adjacent to the Hempstead branch, will be diverted to the Mainline via a switch and will continue east...

On February 21, 2019 the LIRR Expansion Project team delivered a project update to the Floral Park Centre Civic Association and discussed ongoing construction activities occurring in and around the village. The presentation included current progress on South Tyson Avenue Bridge, coordination with local schools, and traffic detour plans for...

Nassau County Legislator Laura Schaefer kicked off the WPOA (Western Property Owners Association) special meeting on County Reassessment and an update on the 3rd Track. The County’s property reassessment initiative drew a large crowd to Homestead School, and Nassau County Legislator Schaefer walked the residents through the tax assessment notice....

At about 9:15 a.m. on Monday, February 4, a broken rail was discovered on LIRR’s Ronkonkoma Branch near Deer Park on Long Island. LIRR workers responded, fixing the rail by 11:45 a.m., enabling LIRR to operate around the site of the broken rail with minimum service impacts. All thanks to...